"There's no time," the Director said, "that I can see any assimilation of Gehenna into Alliance ... without the inclusion of humans who think at an angle. You can tape them. You can try to change them. If you don't understand what they are now, how do you understand them when they've come another hundred years, another two hundred on the same course?"
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna, C. J. Cherryh
Seen on usenet:
"By what measure is the Iraq war not a failure?"
"By the measure I've said repeatedly. That it's not over yet."
So long as we keep killing and keep dying, the matter is, apparently, inconclusive.
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"Dw3t-Hthr" (Duat-Hether) is a title of various female temple officials in ancient Egypt. It means "Worshipper of Hathor" or "Adorer of Hathor".
For you and me, we hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me, we'd elect each other president
For you and me
We might agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore...
-- Rush, "Alien Shore"
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Apparently, also, it's not the place of the American people to KNOW why we're in the war.
If we needed to know, we'd be told. Since we haven't been told, clearly, knowing the objective isn't something we need to be aware of.
Took me half an hour to get my eyeballs to pop back into their sockets after that one!
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